Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-03-01

H.. Fl. Smith, of the Commercial hotel,
got out in the middle Of Second street
yesterday afternoon and damned with a
plank and some hay, a large stream of
water, turning it from it's course, and
saving his cellar from o wetting.
Yesterday morning the hills of Ne
brasks were white with snow and to-
day they show the color of defunct YER
dure with a white streak here and there
in the shadedsgulches. They are having
a thaw over in the United States.
The ice in the river still holds itself
together, but about two inches of water
covers all that portion which gar be
seen from the river bank. Farmers have
crossed with loaded wagons. but the
journey ia made with much care.
John Walsh, railroad contractor from
Elk Point, was in the city to-day hiring
men and teams to go to work upon a
grading contract which Mr.. Walsh has
upon an extension of the Elkhcrn valley
a division of the Northwestern railroad.
Mrs. Laura Stone, mother of Mrs. Geo.
W. Kingsbury, of this city, quietly
observed the 61st anniversary of her
wedding yesterday. OF the large num-
Der of people who attended Mrs. Stones
wedding but one aside from herself is
living at this time.
Company Els members are n and all
crying "On TO Washington" The pros
poet for a visit of four or six companies
OF the Dakota militia to Washington in
May mex ID rather exciting and COM
pany E being the prize militia company
of Dakota will probably go.
Last week a party of Union Pacific
surveyors started northwestward from
North Bend with instructions to find q
route to the Missouri river somewhere
below Ninbrara. North Bend is a Union
Pacific station about one hundred miles
east of south from Yankton,
An army of prairie chickens flies over
from Nebraska into the corn fields of
Dakota every morning and returns at
night. These Nebraska chickens fatten-
cd On Dakota products are the legitimate
plumber of Dakota nimrods and they
will be waited upon next summer.
M. J. Walker, who is to assume the
proprietorship of the Merchants hotel,
brought with him from Chicago a team
of fine buggy horses, from the heels of
which Yankton's fast ones will get much
dust in their eyes. MIR. Walker will not
make Q change in the present omnibus
arrangement.
The temperance mass meeting which
was held of the Methodist church last
evening was we'll attended and very in
teresting. 8. W. Swift made a brief adj
dress, DR.. J. B. Van Velsor gave a brief
outline of the temperance work at Park
er and Mrs. J. T. Sargent read "Saman-
tina Aliens Visit to Washington on Tenn
perance Business" The next meeting
will be held on Monday evening next.
The food of water which has poured
down from the surrounding hills during
the past two days has developed nu-
merous fiat spots in the streets of the
city. Cutters are yet damned by the
winters accumulation and the released
moisture does not flow unvexed to the
Missouri. Active work on the part OF
the street commissioner and his force
have kept the overflow out of cellars aud
numerous channels have been cut
through ohstrnot,nnE
Last night the usually quiet Rhine
was on q most unbeooming boom and
| the roar of its turbulent water scould be
heard several blocks away. This MORN
ing it had subsidized to it's habitual
dooile proportions, but has been rising
all day and is making itself heard in
muttering accents tonight. The small
bridge on Pine street has been moored
to a tree by q stout line, but with the
evident belief that the bridge will move
up stream if it goes out.
Reports of the Saturday storm are
just coming in through the outside
blockade and Yankton learns that 1t was
on that day surrounded on all sides ex-
cept the southern by the worst distur.
bance of this turbulent winter. Rail
roads in Iowa, Minnesota and Dakots
were nearly ALI blockaded, the line run.
ming to. Yankton up the Missouri bottom
seeming to be about the only one open
AS there was nothing in the way o.
storm Indications here, excepting the
wind of Friday night, the details Of thil
visitation read like q romance. Ever
as near to us as Sioux City there was
heavy snow fall. In Nebraska ther,
was no storm.
Sioux City has sent IN ambassador t,
Lincoln, Nebraska, to ascertain wha
there is in the railroad movement fron
Norfolk eastward with C%ovington as it
ostensible terminus. This party re
ports that he is unable to determin
whether or not there is any vitality i
the project. 1t has been discovered tina
the Central Pacific is about to be shu
out from the east by the Union Paoif
and must seek an eastern opening. Som
years ago the Central Pacific made pre-
paratiops for this event by surveying
line from Corginne, Utah, to Yankto
. and it is not improbable that, when til
time comes, this route will be used. Th
movements Of the Manitoba and th
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